Overview
- Dallas Fire-Rescue says the vault fell around 2 p.m. at Restland Funeral Home on Greenville Avenue and trapped the worker from the waist down.
- First-arriving firefighters used hydraulic spreaders and airbags to lift the vault after dispatching the Urban Search and Rescue team as a precaution.
- The man was transported with severe lower-body injuries and later died at the hospital, according to officials.
- Investigators have not released the victim’s identity and the cause of the collapse remains under review.
- The vault had been stacked outside the facility and such vaults are often made of concrete, local officials noted.